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New comment by ramraj07 in "Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate"

ramraj07 — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:37:10 +0000

Such an elegant finding. I only wish they did slightly more to validate the result further. Depleting all macrophages is a fairly drastic step. Heck, you dont even know what other tissue this affected. Theres no correlation that only liver macrophages or their iron or neuronal connections were the responsible system for the disruption observed.

New comment by ramraj07 in "ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies"

ramraj07 — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:01:11 +0000

Thats not a bubble though, thats just Stockholm syndrome or genuine acceptance of this behavior as being acceptable or even perfect.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

ramraj07 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:27:47 +0000

They never advertised that they did. Its not even real true AI. They just struggle with new scenarios.

People drive into floods too. They just don't get sensational articles written about it, just posted on reddit.

New comment by ramraj07 in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

ramraj07 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:08:38 +0000

I really wouldn't care.

New comment by ramraj07 in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

ramraj07 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:14:42 +0000

What's wrong with the Polish author example?

New comment by ramraj07 in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

ramraj07 — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:56:54 +0000

You mean like Teslas multi terabyte repo is not normal?

New comment by ramraj07 in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

ramraj07 — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:56:05 +0000

The first step I do when I do any meaningful side project is to set up rds with snapshots. So any startup that doesnt do this one basic step already deserves to fail in my opinion.

Then next I've used AI agents like crazy, we even have linked mcp servers that let it query on the dev database. Haven't seen it try deleting everything a single time. I haven't seen any agent try to do anything destructive. Ever. Perhaps its just reflecting an outrageously bad engineer and nothing else.

New comment by ramraj07 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

ramraj07 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:10:13 +0000

The comparison is not valid. When writing let's say a novel, you cant just tell some random dude "write chapter 4" - you cant outsource it to a human so it only makes neither can you outsource it to ai.

Software engineering is not that. You absolutely can and often will hand ofoff work to humans. Its not inherently that creative in the actual coding part.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion"

ramraj07 — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:18:44 +0000

I would argue unconscious in the anesthesia sense is not the same as "not having consciousness" at a categorical level.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion"

ramraj07 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:10:09 +0000

There is no true scientific discussion possible about the nature of consciousness. This is squarely in the realm of philosophy.

I personally think its moot to discuss whether LLMs are conscious. If they are, then we have diluted the definition to something that has no relevance to morality or concepts like life and death. Lets just take them for what they are, if we feel like they deserve to be treated with respect then we should (dont think anyone does yet).

New comment by ramraj07 in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

ramraj07 — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:20:52 +0000

For 1, the general thinking is that companies like these perform the job of abstracting the CLI complexity in their application while the harness presented to the llm can be independently as suave as needed for it.

New comment by ramraj07 in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

ramraj07 — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:09:08 +0000

No matter how smart you think you get, I personally dont trust the models in an environment where they can read the secrets one way or another, in any high volume production environment.

New comment by ramraj07 in "The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox"

ramraj07 — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:06:28 +0000

> It assumes the existence of a sandbox that is by definition ephemeral or "cattle-like". Why?

Because the moment you use k8s, you have to assume that, apparently. Or so Im told by all the infrastructure people I speak with. Getting these pods to not disappear just because one process ran out of memory has been an herculean task.

I wish our standard deploy processes produce durable computers that dont break our bank but that hasn't been an easy requirement with simple infra teams.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents"

ramraj07 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:48:59 +0000

Not even close to the same thing though.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

ramraj07 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:38:18 +0000

Backing up multi terabyte production postgres databases is not merely cos playing ha ha

New comment by ramraj07 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

ramraj07 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:13:35 +0000

What exactly do I need to say further? My first comment was that "scientists today still don't understand correlation =/= causation" and the replies are all scientists who try to explain again how correlation can still mean causation (no it doesn't, and it definitely doesn't in this case and that has been the root cause from the beginning). So I tried to implore you to go review your text yourself, but you are clearly above it, so not sure what else I could do here.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

ramraj07 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:41:22 +0000

Wouldn't mind knowing how.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

ramraj07 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:43:34 +0000

Im not gonna try to correct you because its probably going to be futile, but I implore you to paste this thread into chatgpt and ask where you could be wrong in your logic.

Correlation not causation is all the more important in a topic like this; nothing you said suggests amyloid causes alzheimers or just forms because of it.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

ramraj07 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:29:31 +0000

> Autopsies of brains of Alzheimer's patients were rife with amyloid

Do you want think carefully about how this can possibly suggest this is a causal link?

> People with mutations that caused amyloid got Alzheimer's earlier than others.

People with mutations in those genes got a particular type of inherited alzheimers early, this says nothing about the cause of general Alzheimers.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

ramraj07 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:06:04 +0000

There were no cointerarguments? There was a very simple counterargument: where was the causal data? If none exist why should I counter argue when you hadn't proven it to begin with.